re: This board has convinced me that race is not an issue

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I came here expecting many on the board to be complaining and criticizing the big-government overreach and police-state tactics on full display in Ferguson. I expected this "libertarian" board to be disgusted by displays of excessive force and intimidation as well as restriction of the press. I thought that maybe I'd find common ground with folks I usually argued with. Instead, I feel like the general tone of the board is that Michael Brown was a criminal that deserved to be shot and that the protestors are in fact violent looters who deserve to be put under martial law. Why does it seem like so many supporters of individual freedom have gone silent or flipped sides when Big Brother isn't after them?

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I have to disagree! Start a thread about how these criminals in WACO shot and killed a federal agent trying to serve them and the government surrounded them for over 50 days begging them to let the women and children go and how tear gas from the govt resulted in fires that killed all inside and you'll find almost 100% support for the "victims" and criticism of the govt.

But then again let it be in Gaza or Detroit and those women and children become "human shields" and the people are thugs and terrorists and those in authority can do no wrong.

It all depends on perspective....







And color.